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adieu he flew across, went straight up to tlie liouse and walked in. A 

 few niihutes and the two old birds came out and calmly went for either 

 food for the young or perhaps herbs to cure seasickness. 



Several days have elapsed and the birds still continue to take regular 

 trips with food. We are of the opinion that the wren family has not 

 been wiped out througli its fifteen-foot flight on the perpendicular. 



Milford, la. Arthur F. Smith. 



Bay Point. Ohio, Migration Notes. 1914. 



Bay Point is a low, sandy bar, extending a mile and a half toward the 

 city of Sandusky from the southeastern corner of the Peninsula upon 

 Avhich Lakeside and Marblehead are built. It is in the direct line of 

 the southward migrations of the birds which cross lake Erie by the 

 Point Pelee, Pelee Island, Middle Island, KeUeys Island, and Marblehead 

 Peninsula route. The waters, or shores, of Sandusky Bay and the San- 

 dusky Eiver, which flows into the bay, continue the route southward. 



The seven weeks between June 26 and August 14, 1914, were spent 

 within easy access to this point, and daily studies of the birds found 

 there were made. Frequent visits were also made to it during July, 1913. 



In 1913 the first migration noted was on July 11th, when Least Sand- 

 pipers, Semipalmated Sandpipers, Yellowlegs and Semipalmated Plovers 

 were found on the beach. On the 12th a cloud of Bank Swallows passed 

 over the Point on their way southward. The great majority of them 

 came directly from the direction of Marblehead Lighthouse and passed 

 up the bay along the western shore. In 1914 the first migrants appeared 

 on June 29 — a Black-bellied Plover in fuU dress. When he was flushed, 

 he flew up the bay. On July 3rd there were three Least Sandpipers on 

 the beach. They were next noted on the 9th, and nearly every d;iy until 

 our departure — August 14. Three Semipalmated Plovers arrived on July 

 3, with three Baird 's Sandpif)ers, and were regular feeders there during 

 our stay, occasionally increased in numbers up to a dozen of each 

 species. A Dowitcher came to the beach on July 14, in the afternoon, 

 and was seen there on the loth, 22d, 23d and 24th. The flrst Caspian 

 Terns came on July 17, and were there every day afterward. There Avere 

 three at first, but they gradually increased to the maximum of 16 on 

 August 2.5, when a brief visit was made to the Point. The first Semi- 

 palmated Sandpipers came on July 16, the Yellowlegs on the 22d, the 

 first Pectoral Sandpipers on the 24th, and the first Solitary on the 24th. 



On July 17 a Stilt Sandpiper visited the Point, A capture was not 

 made, but the bird was feeding in a shallow lagoon just outside the 

 line of vegetation which bordered the bare sand beach, and permitted 

 an approach within three rods. There was no mistaking the barred 

 under-parts, the long slendet legs, and the habits which I had carefully 

 studied in Iowa in the summer of 1913. The bird was with Spotted 

 Sandpipers and Piping Plovers. 



